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| Issuer | Stymphalos |
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| Year | 350 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Head of Artemis facing right, depicted with loosely curled hair and wearing a laureate or stephane, rendered in a plain archaic-to-early Classical style typical of Arkadian civic bronzes. The portrait is set within a broad, flat field with no surrounding legend or border. The relief is moderately high, with visible detail in the hair locks curling about the neck. The surface shows a dark green patina consistent with prolonged burial. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΣΤΥΜΦΑ |
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Stymphalos, a minor Arcadian city-state best known from myth as the site of Heracles' sixth labor, struck municipal bronze only within a narrow window during the fourth century BC. The city's independent coinage was effectively ended by its incorporation into the Achaean League, after which local civic types gave way to federal issues. Examples tied to the BCD collection — the benchmark reference for Peloponnesian bronzes — were catalogued from one of the most rigorously assembled regional series ever assembled privately, with BCD 1706 representing one of the scarcer Arcadian civic attributions in that corpus.